Towner County, ND adjoins Benson near Cando metropolitan centre granting a 2020 estimated population standing at 2,319 making it the 9th least populous county located hereabouts. Its county seat is Cando with other cities include Bisbee & Dundee-Cando itself equates out to Towner's largestcity aside from noted country seat. This area had been formed from Cavalier and Rolette Counties back in 1883 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Minnesota Governor John A Towner legislating through state during preceding era Chester Arthur .